Wash down area tips?

[Raynard]

Rock and roll life means I am spending my Friday night trying to design a wash down area in the yard.

Anyone have a good system where water drains away into soakaway and solids collect in an area easy to remove?

Pictures gratefully received?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Do you have access to s slurry tanker? If so I'd just build a pit with a heavy duty grid on top so you can park on top and as you wash down the muck and water drops through grid into pit then pump out now n then, or have it so you can lift off grid and scoop out with forklift

 

[Raynard]

Won't the solids just separate if you do not pump it straight away? Also do you just let the water sit in the pit or drain off?

 

[MickMoor]

I think if you are draining to a water course you will need two interceptors. One for oils, and the second for solids.

 

[Fraserb]

Our wash area is an underground tank covered with a slat and a drain near the top, have a 90 degree bend on the pipe turned so its pointing down to stop any floating stuff down the pipe, every so often can suck it out with tanker then when theres a big build up of solid can lift the slat and dig out with digger. Been using ours just over a year and not needed the tanker or digger yet.

 

[Kidds]

Design it so you don't have to reverse the washed vehicle into a low sun.
Washed my tuck today and while reversing out of the yard I hit the upright girder on the barn. I thought I was going around the last bay, turns out there was another one.

I now have whiplash, a headache and a bent tailboard.
On the plus side, there are now no leaves in the gutter.